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Our Priorat wine tours awarded by TripAdvisor (we are number 1!)

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Wine tasting in the vineyard at sunset in Priorat

Spoiler: According to TripAdvisor, among Catalonia’s top 10 wineries, three belong to DOQ Priorat! How about a wine tasting in the vineyards?

More good news! We already have the official TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award here. Previously, this award was called Certificate of Excellence.

TripAdvisor is one of the world’s most popular web portals providing information for travelers (according to the Statista report), where a significant part of the content is based on user feedback on the destinations they have visited, accommodation, restaurants, etc. Wine travel also has good coverage there.

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Grape harvest workshop is back to Gratallops, DOQ Priorat, on 22 September 2019

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grape harvest master class, Celler Devinssi, Gratallops, DOQ PrioratAfter many requests from our vineyard adopters and other friends of Celler Devinssi, this year we’re resuming our grape harvest workshop.

Save the date on 22 September (Sunday) to enjoy Priorat’s scenery and learn to harvest or improve your grape harvesting skills.

The workshop will include a briefing on harvesting techniques and a grape harvesting session. Afterwards, there will be a wine tasting at the vineyard, paired with local products.

Schedule:

  • 10.00 – 10.30 am – meetup at Devinssi Celler
  • 10.30 – 11.00 am – guided walk to the vineyard
  • 11.00 am – 12.45 pm – grape harvest workshop
  • 12.45 – 1.30 pm – wine tasting paired with local products
  • 1.30 – 2.00 pm – return to the village

Prices:

  • General fee: € 30 per person (VAT included).
  • Grapevine adopters: € 15 per person (VAT included).

Places are limited.

Please confirm before 20 September 2019.

Please advise if you have any food restrictions. We will post the ingredients closer to the workshop date.

Please wear good hiking footwear (low difficulty), a hat and sunscreen.

We look forward to your active participation. For any further enquiries, please contact us.

Easter holiday in Priorat: doors open days at Celler Devinssi

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Easter holiday in Priorat: doors open days at Celler Devinssi wine travel wine tastingSchedule: 10-15 April + 1 May, 2017, 11 am – 2 pm. Tasting rate: 5€/person

In a few days, the Setmana Santa (Easter holiday) begins and gives you a nice chance for an escape, journey or excursion. Obviously, the Priorat is ready to create those very special moments of leisure with family, partner or friends…

We usually only host booked visits. Well, this Easter holiday is high time we broadened this rule. Apart from the already booked wine tours, we’re flinging wide the doors during the Setmana Santa and offer to taste our Continue reading →

Easter holiday in Priorat: doors open days at Celler Devinssi

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Easter holiday in Priorat: doors open days at Celler Devinssi wine travel wine tastingIn a few days, the Setmana Santa (Easter holiday) begins and gives you a nice chance for an escape, journey or excursion. Obviously, the Priorat is ready to create those very special moments of leisure with family, partner or friends…

We usually only host booked visits. Well, this Easter holiday is high time we broadened this rule. Apart from the already booked wine tours, we’re flinging wide the doors during the Setmana Santa and offer to taste our Continue reading →

Wine-food pairing dinner, 19 Februrary, 2016, Moraima restaurant (Cambrils)

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Mas de les Valls DOQ Priorat Celler DevinssiCambrils is well-known for being one of Costa Daurada’s gastronomy capitals. This town’s essence is the fusion of fisherman tradition and wine-making and livestock husbandry. So both in summer and winter, Cambrils lures into some delectable wine-and-dine.

The Moraima restaurant located in Cambrils (Avinguda del Països Catalans, 1) offers to enjoy a food-and-wine pairing dinner including our DOQ Priorat wines. This Friday, 19 February, we’d like you to come over and have a sip of our Mas de les Valls 2013 wines (red and white, handcraft production) and discover how our wines can pair with fish and meat courses.

Before the dinner, we’ll give you a glimpse of our wine-making region DOQ Priorat, of our winery and of our artisan and traditional manner of wine elaboration. We’re very grateful to the Moraima restaurant for this chance of promoting our wines!

The dinner courses include:

  • Salmon tartar with guacamole and pickles
  • Mille-feuille with seabass, ratatouille and vermouth sauce
  • Low-temperature roasted lamb shoulder
  • Pina colada and Habana 7 parfait

Rate per person: 30€. Limited places.

Phone for booking: 977 79 28 21

Warm, powerful wine, although with fresh finale and Priorat’s typical minerality

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Nice view of Mas de les Valls 2011, Celler Devinssi, DOQ Priorat

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Grape harvest 2015 in Priorat: with our grapevine adopters (video)

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What implications do our grapevine adoptions have? One of the main features are wine tourism activities for grapevine adopters’ club members.

In September, 2015, our adopters were lucky to participate in a grape harvest master class topped off with a wine tasting at our old vineyad, in the shadow of an old almond tree, enjoying the company, wines, and marvellous panoramic views of the Monstant mountain, Gratallops and El Lloar villages… Vine adopters came from everyplace: Catalonia, Finland, Russia, Poland, Belgium… They really enjoyed our Rocapoll 2012 and particularly when tasting it straigtaway at the vineyard where grapes were harvested for this wine.

On that day, our grapevine guardian Yolanda helped us a lot with filming some moments of the grape harvest master class, where the main part was given to vines and their sponsors. The film was recorded with a GoPro, an iPhone and iPad and intended to get you closer to Priorat vineyard farming… Do you feel like blending in? Besides, Yuletide is round the bend, and grapevine adoptions could be a great gift idea for Christmas, New Year or Three King’s Day.

Five tips for wine tasting

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tasting at celler devinssi win tours in prioratLike most cellars open to wine tourists in Priorat, we host visitors who sometimes have doubts about the way of tasting wines, whether they should be somehow prepared for a tasting or not. We’ve been reading the recent post by Campbell Bevan about top five tips for a wine tasting. We enjoyed reading it due to its slick and easy style, so that anyone from beginner to expert can understand it. We decided to borrow the outline of the post and provide it with another body, you know, Priorat-wine full body. We squeezed the five tips into four and added another one of our own consideration.

1. Can I eat before a wine tasting? – Don’t go to taste wines on an empty stomach

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